The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
Closed Easter Monday — No Sessions
The club is closed today in observance of Easter Monday. See you tomorrow!
2 PM ET Mindfulness & Modeling
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf & Suzan Quick
This thoughtful group explores the parallels between mindfulness and modeling, emphasizing the integration of mind and body, the significance of presence over outcomes, and the patterns that help us remember what matters.
1 PM ET PUBLIC Ask Me Anything
Hosted by Abby Covert
A free, public session to ask Abby Covert anything about sensemaking, information architecture, and the Sensemakers Club.
2 PM ET Knowledge Management & Governance
Hosted by Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter
This lively group focuses on collaborative efforts in knowledge management and governance, bringing together individuals tackling complex documentation and change proposals.
2 PM ET Career Transitions
Hosted by Chloe Westman & Susan Kraft-Yorke
This supportive group focuses on navigating the challenges and opportunities of career transitions, whether you're changing roles, industries, or re-entering the workforce.
2 PM ET Information Architecture
Hosted by Abby Covert
A steady group focused on a monthly theme in information architecture.
What’s going on?
Week of April 6, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
We are back from Spring break and have a full agenda this week with 4 discussion groups, and a special Ask Me Anything session for the public on Wednesday April 8th at 1 PM.
Our members are also hard at work planning our annual Sensemakers Salon taking place on May 15th from 12 to 3 PM. This week session proposals are due and next week we will share the agenda with the public.
If you have been looking for a chance to see what this club is all about I highly suggest you RSVP to one or both.
Themes from last week:
- You have to live it to name it.
- The individual and the collective are always in tension.
- Language, naming, and the power to recognize.
SPECIAL EVENT
May 15, 2026
12 to 3 PM ET
Sensemakers Salon
The Sensemakers Salon is a FREE half-day of soulful activities, mutual aid workshops & discussions that matter to our members, but open to the public.